As a gunman stormed Norris Hall at Virginia Tech University and began killing fellow students, the students in professor Liviu Librescu's classroom could heard the shouts and gunfire coming closer to their room. Realizing what was happening, Professor Librescu--a 76-year-old Holocaust survivor--urged the students out the window as he braced himself against the door.
The gunman pushed against the door on the other side. An article in the New York Daily News reports that Richard Mallalieu, a student in Librescu's mechanics class, and most of his classmates hung out of the windows and dropped to the grass below--but Librescu stayed behind.
Alec Calhoun, 20, said the last thing he saw before he jumped from the window was his professor, "blocking the door against the madman in the hallway." Librescu died protecting the students.
"Courageous final act of professor," NY Daily News, Posted 4-17-2007; submitted by David Slagle
Keywords: Atonement; Christ, blood of; Christ, death of; Christ, our substitute; Sacrifice
Scripture: John 10:11-18; Romans 5:10; 1 John 3:16
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